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You can get a federal ID. It's called a passport card. It costs $65.

Which is usually a really crappy idea when you want to save a few bucks compared to a real passport.

They're umpteen stories of heartbreak and hurt, by people not being allowed to board an international flight, or a cruise which stops at destinations not covered by a passport card.

They're also those that thought it's a great idea to get them for their kids.

With the same consequence. A passport card does not allow you to fly internationally. Not even to Mexico or Canada.



Obviously not, it's not a passport. It's a card.

I'm not saying use it for international travel, I'm saying use it as an ID? Literally any American citizen can get an ID card for $65 that is accepted everywhere someone asks you for ID.

If we started taking things a bit more seriously, we could also get that fee down by subsidizing it.




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